ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT — Utah Shakespeare Festival ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT By Lynnette Horner Like many musical partnerships, the collaboration of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice brought together the essential elements of musical creation: a passion for their art, astronomical talent, and enough diversity to keep things interesting. Andrew Lloyd Webber attacked his career with a single-minded vision that produced dramatic spectacles such as Cats (1981), Starlight Express (1984), and Phantom of the Opera (1986). Tim Rice, as a modern Renaissance man, has shown an amazing ability to diversify his interests.

In addition to collaborating with Lloyd Webber on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1971), and Evita (1976), he has been a successful non-fiction writer, publisher, cricket player, pop song writer, radio show host, and collaborator with other music heavyweights such as Alan Menken, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, and Elton John, The Lion King. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s biography reads like the reincarnation of historic music geniuses. He was born into a musical family on March 22, 1948, and was raised in South Kensington, England. His father was a professor at the Royal College of Music and taught music theory and composition. His mother, also employed at the Royal College, taught piano and was a singer and violinist. At the age of three, Lloyd Webber was playing the violin; at six, he was composing music, and at nine, he was published in the magazine Music Teacher.

At the age of seventeen, Lloyd Webber received the following letter from the then twenty one-year-old law student, Tim Rice: “Dearest Andrew, I’ve been told you’re looking for a “with it” writer of lyrics for your songs, and as I’ve been writing pop songs for a while and particularly enjoy writing the lyrics I wonder if you consider it worth your while meeting me. Tim Rice.” He obviously did consider it “worth his while” and thus began the collaboration of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Tim Rice was born November 10, 1944, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. He briefly studied law, then ended up working for EMI Records while Lloyd Webber was studying serious music. After their meeting in 1965, they began working on their first musical, The Likes of Us, which was never performed. After this time Rice wanted to compose pop songs, but Lloyd Webber, true to his vision, wanted to work on another musical. It was during this impasse that they were contacted by Alan Doggett, the head of music at Colt Court, a small preparatory school in West London. He commissioned them to write an end-of-term religious concert.

During the next two months a twenty-minute “pop-cantata” version of Joseph and his colored coat was born. (Today Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a two hour stage spectacular.) The play made its debut on March 1, 1968, and its immediate popularity demanded repeat performances in May and November of the same year. With each performance, “Joseph” got bigger and better. An early review notes that Tim Rice sang the part of Pharaoh in several of the early performances. The success of “Joseph” led to a record deal with Decca for an album that was cut in January of 1969. Perhaps Lloyd Webber and Rice felt they had really hit on something with their Bible theme and once again raided the Good Book to write Jesus Christ Superstar which premiered in 1969. In 1975 they began another venture based on the classic tales of P. G. Wodehouse and began writing the musical Jeeves. However, Rice soon lost interest and dropped out of the project. It wasn’t long, however, before they got back together to collaborate on Evita, which premiered successfully in 1976.

These two enormous talents parted ways at this time to “recharge their batteries,” as Rice said, away from each other. However, unlike many other musical collaborations, both men went on to phenomenal success in solo careers. With his unique ability to mold music from disparate genres into music with wide popular appeal, Lloyd Webber’s other credits include Sunset Boulevard (1993), a rewrite of Jeeves titled Now Jeeves (1996), and his most current work, Whistle Down the Wind. In October 1982, Lloyd Webber made history by being the first person to have three smash hit musicals running simultaneously in New York and London. With the opening of Phantom of the Opera he repeated that accomplishment in 1988. He has also worn the hats of music composer for British film, producer at the London Palace Theater which he owns, and record producer. Andrew Lloyd Webber has accumulated countless awards, and his smash musicals have generated astounding box office revenues. Therefore, it is not surprising that he was named the most powerful person in American theatre in a list compiled by Theater Weekly.

He was knighted in 1992 by Queen Elizabeth for services to the theater not only in the United States and the United Kingdom, but throughout the world. Tim Rice’s other musical theater credits include Blondel with Stephen Oliver, Chess with Benny Andersson and Bjorn Uvaeus (from the pop group Abba). In 1986 he co-wrote the smaller scale Cricket, again with Lloyd Webber. In 1991 he produced Tycoon from his translation of the hit French musical, Starmania. In 1993, Rice replaced the late Howard Ashman as Alan Menken’s lyricist on Disney’s Aladdin. Their song, “A Whole New World,” won them a Golden Globe and Academy Award. He also was awarded, with Elton John, the Golden Globe, Academy Award, and Ivor Novello Award for his work on Disney’s Lion King and the song, Circle of Life. As a journalist, Rice has written regular columns for national newspapers and cricket magazines, reflecting his abiding interest in the game.

His continued passion for popular music not only won him the BBC Radio’s title of “Rock Brain of the Year” in 1986, but led him to co-author The Guinness Hit Singles series with Paul Gambaccini, Mike Read, and his brother Jo Rice. In 1994, Rice was granted knighthood for services to the arts, particularly music, and sports. The biographies of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice are as yet unfinished. With the universality and diversity of the upbeat “Hakuna Matata” to the poignant “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” to the passionate “Music of the Night,” their music is almost omnipresent. Hopefully, there are still many songs to be written. × The Accompanist - Tim Rice Lyricist Biography Tim Rice (Lyricist) Biography Tim Rice is a lyricist who, over the past 50 years, has created some of the most well known shows in his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber and more latterly in his work with Alan Menken and Elton John respectively for Disney.

Early Years Timothy Miles Bindon Rice was born on 10th November 1944 in Shardeloes, an English country house in Buckinghamshire, near Amersham. The site was requisitioned as a maternity hospital during World War II, and with his parents, Hugh Gordon Rice, being in the a major in the British Army, and Joan Odette, in the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) this was not an unusual circumstance during this period. Tim studied at three different independent schools before working as an articled clerk for a law firm in London rather than studying at University. It was the head of Arlington Books, Desmond Elliot, who knew Andrew Lloyd Webber and the fact that he was seeking a new lyricist. In 1965 Tim wrote to Andrew and shortly after they met and started working together. Tim soon moved to EMI Records where he was assistant to producer Norrie Paramour. When Paramour left EMI and set up his own organisation Tim followed to serve as his personal assistant. The first project he and Andrew collaborated on was based on the life story of Dr.

Barnardo, at the suggestion of Elliot, and over the subsequent months they began working on the piece (this saw Andrew first take a sabbatical from his studies at Oxford University, then decide not to return there and concentrate on music full-time). The show was called The Likes of Us and did not provide them with a performance of any kind. It was later staged in 2005, in its 40th Anniversary year. Collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber The first show to achieve success for the newly established partnership was Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which they created for 1st March 1968. Colet Court School was looking for an 'end of term' piece and choirmaster Alan Doggett was a friend of Andrew Lloyd Webber's. Although it was only originally designed for the school the show has had songs added and been staged to huge success all over the world for the last 45 years. Andrew happened to approach Sefton Myers over creating a 'Pop' museum. Although Myers was uninterested in the museum he was, however, interested in the copy of Joseph that accompanied the proposal. This led to Andrew and Tim signing a three year songwriting deal.

Rice gave up his work for Norrie Paramour to concentrate solely on the songwriting with Lloyd Webber. After initial ideas, for one based on King Richard and the Crusades (Tim would later come back to this idea) and one for the story of King Saul, were rejected the pair set about creating a new show based on the final days of Jesus Christ. As the concept was quite controversial it was decided that the project would be for a concept album. Jesus Christ Superstar was released in 1970. The success of the single Superstar launched Tim and Andrew into a very different world from the early success of Joseph and saw the young men touring the world performing interviews and promoting the album. The stage show was practically guaranteed from this point although it did take another two years to reach the stage production. The follow up to Jesus Christ Superstar saw the two part ways as Rice wished to work on an idea based on the life story of Eva Peron whilst Lloyd Webber wished to work on an adaptation of the works of P.G.Wodehouse. Alan Ayckbourn went on to create the lyrics for By Jeeves which didn't receive the same approval from the audience as the earlier Rice & Lloyd Webber successes.

Andrew therefore came on board with what became Evita. In 1978, when the show was released in the UK, the main ballad of the show Don't Cry For Me Argentina soared to the Number 1 position, firmly establishing Rice & Lloyd Webber as one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 1970s. When the film was created in 1996 both Tim & Andrew received an Oscar for the new song they had created for the movie You Must Love Me. Subsequent Musicals and Lyricising Despite their great success of the 1970s Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber has not collaborated a great deal since. In 1983 Rice created Blondel with composer Stephen Oliver. This was a comedic jaunt through the life and times of King Richard and the Crusades (one of those ideas from his earlier years). In 1981 Tim had also met with Abba songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus to discuss ideas for a new musical.

In 1984 the collaboration resulted in Chess, first released as a concept album in 1984, which told a fictional tale based on the Cold War hysteria surrounding the Chess world in the 1970s. In the UK in 1985 I Know Him So Well reached number 1 for Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige. Also in the same year One Night in Bangkok topped the charts in 11 countries. Both songs were taken from the musical. Subsequent productions went on around the world including in the UK in 1986 and Broadway in 1988. Tim was signed to Disney in 1991 to begin work on a film that would become The Lion King but when Alan Menken's collaborator, friend and lyricist, Howard Ashman, passed away Tim was asked to step in complete the songs for Aladdin. In 1992 Tim Rice and Alan Menken won best Oscar for Best Original Song for A Whole New World. The Lion King was released in 1994 and this time Tim had collaborated with Pop Superstar and Songwriter Elton John.

Can You Feel The Love Tonight from the film won he and John another Oscar, again for Best Original Song in 1995. With the Oscar in 1996 for the song You Must Love Me from Evita Tim had collected three Oscars in only 5 years for Best Original Song. In 1997 Menken and Rice created the piece King David, based on the life of the biblical character, to re-open Disney's refurbished New Amsterdam Theatre. With Elton John Tim had written Aida in 1996 which went on to be staged in 1998. The song Written In The Stars, featuring the voices of Elton and Leanne Rimes, reached Number 2 in the US charts for 4 weeks. Tim continues to write but less on a musical front nowadays. He created the Guinness Book of Hit Singles with several collaborators over two decades and has created solo songs for the likes of Freddie Mercury, Placido Domingo, David Essex and even Elvis Presley. In 2013 he produced and lyricised the musical From Here To Eternity which ran for 7 months in the West End.

Selected list of Musicals and Movies for which Tim Rice has written lyrics; The Likes Of Us (1965 staged in 2005) [Musical] Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) [Musical] Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Jesus Christ Superstar (1970 album, 1971 musical, 1973 movie) Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita (1978) [Musical] (1996) [Movie] Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Won Oscar for Best Original Song (1996) Blondel (1983) [Musical] Music by Stephen Oliver Chess (1984 album, 1986 Musical) [Musical] Music by Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus Beauty & The Beast (1991) [Movie] Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Howard Ashman Won the Oscar (1992) for Best Original Score and Best Original Song ('Beauty & The Beast') (Additional lyrics for Musical by Tim Rice, 1994) Aladdin (1992) [Movie] Lyrics by

 Howard Ashman & Tim Rice Won the Oscar (1993) for Best Original Score and Best Original Song ('A Whole New World' (lyrics by Tim Rice)) (Musical 2011 & 2014) The Lion King [Movie 1994, Musical 1998] Music By Elton John Won the Oscar for Best Original Song (1995) (Can You Feel the Love Tonight) King David (1997) [Musical] Music by Alan Menken Aida (1999) [Musical] Music by Elton John Won the Tony Award for Best Musical Score & Grammy for Best Musical Show Album The Road To Eldorado (2000) [Movie] Music by Elton John Tim Rice - Biography - IMDb Biography Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (21) | Personal Quotes (7) Overview (3) 6' 4" (1.93 m) Mini Bio (1) A prolific lyricist and librettist, Tim Rice was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, in the fall of 1944.

Rice pursued his university education at Lancing College and, briefly, at l'Universite de Paris - Sorbonne. He was considering a legal career around the time that he met Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1965. Three years later, the two young men composed a 20-minute pop oratorio that would eventually become "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". The piece was premiered on 1st March 1968 at the Colet Court School in the City of London. During the following months, Rice and Webber lengthened the oratorio to 30 minutes, and a record album of "Joseph" (with Rice singing the role of "Pharaoh") was made at the end of 1968. Remaining in partnership with Webber, his next project was "Jesus Christ Superstar". Introduced to the public as a concept album in 1970, the opera propelled Rice and Webber to international stardom. Staged versions appeared the following year, and their popularity led to the film Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). Following "Superstar", Rice and Webber returned to their previous project and expanded it into (more or less) its finalised form.

The concept album for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" was released in 1974. Inexplicably eclipsed by his collaborator, Rice may never have received the acclaim that he deserved for his contributions to the partnership. The death-throws of the Rice-Webber collaboration produced a third opera, called "Evita". Its concept album was released in 1976. Rice continued on with a piece called "Blondel", which appeared in 1983. Set to music by Stephen Oliver , "Blondel" was arguably the most comic and witty of Rice's major works. The opera "Chess" followed, with its concept album arriving in 1984. Former ABBA songwriters Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson provided the music for "Chess", and the concept album was an international hit. "Chess" was staged in London in 1986 with great success, but the 1988 Broadway production was radically revised without Rice's knowledge or permission, and it was quickly shut down. In 1991, he was hired to finish the lyrics for the Walt Disney film Aladdin (1992).

Disney subsequently teamed him with Elton John for The Lion King (1994). Rice also composed additional lyrics for the stage version of Disney's film Beauty and the Beast (1991), which opened on Broadway in 1994. A stage version of The Lion King (1994) opened on Broadway in 1997, as he was working with Elton John on two new projects - "Aida", which opened on Broadway in 2000, and the Dreamworks film, The Road to El Dorado (2000). The 1991 to 2000 period also saw a flurry of activity for Tim Rice's earlier works. Major revival productions of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" were staged in many parts of the world. Additionally, there was the film, Evita (1996), as well as the video-films Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1991), and Great Performances: Jesus Christ Superstar (2000).

Apart from theatre and film, Rice has written recurring columns for UK newspapers, as well as having shown up regularly on BBC Radio and Television. In 1973, he founded a cricket side - The Heartaches - for which he serves as a manager as well as a player. He also makes regular contributions to various cricket magazines. He continues to have projects in development for the theatre and for film. Most anxiously awaited - especially by audiences in Canada and the United States - is, perhaps, a revival of the authentic 1986 London version of "Chess". - IMDb Mini Biography By: Liberty Salinger <liberty_salinger@hotmail.com> Spouse (1) ( 19 August 1974 - present) (2 children) Trivia (21) Was knighted in 1994 Has a brother, Jonathan, often known as Jo Rice , who has written some of the books of the TV series "Keeping Up Appearances" (1990) as well as co-founding The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles with Tim, Paul Gambaccini and Mike Read in 1977. Is a supporter of Sunderland Football Club of the English Premiership Division.

Sang lead vocals with a pop group named The Aardvarks (1961-1963). His first published song, "That's My Story", appeared in 1965, which was the same year he met Andrew Lloyd Webber . Wrote songs with Andrew Lloyd Webber that were not intended for musicals including a song "It's Easy For You" recorded by Elvis Presley in 1976. Is the chairman of The Foundation For Sports and the Arts. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2000 (1999 season) for Best New Musical for The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre. He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Outstanding Musical Production of 2003 for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Originally wrote the lyrics for the song "Memory" for the Andrew Lloyd Webber - Trevor Nunn stage musical Cats. However, the show's director Trevor Nunn and Lloyd Webber had problems with his lyrics, which eventually led to Lloyd Webber commissioning Nunn to write his own lyrics for the tune.

This drove a final nail into the already-splintered relationship between Tim Rice and Lloyd Webber, whose feud dates back to the days of their work on the original Evita concept album. Has won three Tony Awards: two in 1980, as Best Score, his lyrics with Andrew Lloyd Webber 's music, and as Best Book (Musical) for "Evita;" and in 2000, as Best Original Musical Score, his lyrics with Elton John 's music for "Aida." He was also Tony-nominated five other times: in 1972, as Best Score, him as lyricist and Webber as composer, for "Jesus Christ Superstar;" in 1982, as Best Score, his lyrics with Webber's music, and as Best Book (Musical) for "Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamboat;" in 1994, as Original Music Score, lyrics by him and Howard Ashman with Alan Menken 's music for "Beauty and the Beast;" and in 1998, as Best Original Music Score, shared with several others, for "The Lion King." Supporter and promoter of the British Conservative Party.

Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999. His favorite songs are "Singing The Blues" by Tommy Steele , "Different Drum" by Linda Ronstadt & The Stone Poneys, "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran , "Pity The Child" by Murray Head , "Runaway" by Del Shannon , "Joanne" by Michael Nesmith , "His Latest Flame" by Elvis Presley , "Hugging My Grudge" by The Boy Least Likely To, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper and "Travelling Light" by Cliff Richard & The Shadows . (Source: BBC Radio 2 "Tracks of My Years"). Father of author Eva Rice (born 1976) with Jane McIntosh . Tim Rice Tim Rice Tim Rice Sir Timothy Miles Bindon “Tim” Rice (born 10 November 1944) is a British lyricist and author.

An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of The Wizard of Oz, and for his work for Walt Disney Studios with Alan Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, King David), Elton John (The Lion King, Aida) and Ennio Morricone. Early Life Rice was born at Shardeloes, an historic English country house near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom that was requisitioned as a maternity hospital during World War II. His father, Hugh Gordon Rice, served with the Eighth Army and reached the rank of major during World War II, whilst his mother, Joan Odette (née Bawden), served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) as a photographic interpreter.[1][2] After the war, they worked for the de Havilland aircraft company. Rice lived in Croxley Green, Radlett and Hatfield, Hertfordshire as a child.

Education Rice was educated at three independent schools: at Aldwickbury School, on the outskirts of Harpenden in Hertfordshire, followed by St Albans School in the city of St Albans (also in Hertfordshire) and Lancing College, near the town of Lancing in West Sussex, on the south coast of England. He left Lancing with GCE A-Levels in History and French and then started work as an articled clerk for a law firm in London, having decided not to apply for a university place.[3] He later attended Sorbonne University in Paris for a year. Career After studying for a year in Paris at the Sorbonne, Rice joined EMI Records as a management trainee on 6 June 1966. When EMI producer Norrie Paramor left to set up his own organisation in 1968, Rice joined him as an assistant producer, working with, among others, Cliff Richard. Rice has collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cricket, and The Likes of Us.

For The Walt Disney Company, Rice has collaborated individually with Alan Menken and Elton John, creating productions including Aladdin (winning an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the song “A Whole New World”) and The Lion King (winning the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”). In 1996, his collaboration with Lloyd Webber for the film version Evita won Rice his third Academy Award for Best Original Song with the song “You Must Love Me”. Rice has also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA on Chess and with Rick Wakeman on the concept albums 1984 and Cost of Living. Along with his brother Jo and radio presenters Mike Read and Paul Gambaccini, he was a co-founder of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and served as an editor from 1977 to 1996. He has also been a frequent guest panellist for many years on the radio panel games Just a Minute and Trivia Test Match. Rice often jokes that he is most recognised in America for his appearance in the film About a Boy.

The film includes several clips from a (real) edition of the game show Countdown on which he was the guest adjudicator. His other interests include cricket (he was President of the MCC in 2002) and maths. He wrote the foreword to the book Why Do Buses Come In Threes by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham, and featured prominently in Tony Hawks’s One Hit Wonderland, where he co-wrote the song which gave Hawks a top twenty hit in Albania. He released his autobiography Oh What a Circus: The Autobiography of Tim Rice in 1998, which covered his childhood and early adult life until the opening of the original London production of Evita in 1978. He is currently working on a sequel, covering his life and career since then.

Rice was made a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994[4] (entitling him to the address “Sir Tim Rice” or “Sir Tim”), was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and was named a Disney Legend in 2002.[4] In 2008, Rice received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[5] Tim is writing eight lyrics to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker. The working title is The Nutcracker: The Untold Story.[6] On 2 December 2010 he addressed the eighth Bradman Oration in Adelaide. Rice was re-united with Andrew Lloyd Webber in 2011 to pen new songs for Andrew’s newest production of The Wizard of Oz which opened in March 2011 at the London Palladium.

Rice has, however, rejected working with Webber again, claiming their partnership has run its course, and they are no longer relevant as a team.[7] He will also be participating in the Bush Theatre’s 2011 project Sixty Six where he has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible[8] On 15 and 22 October 2011 Rice was guest presenter for the BBC Radio 2 show Sounds of the 60s, standing in for regular presenter Brian Matthew who was unwell.[9] Personal Life Rice married Jane McIntosh on 19 August 1974, but the marriage dissolved in the late-1980s after the British tabloid newspapers revealed that he had been conducting an affair with actress/singer Elaine Paige.[10][11][12] Jane retains the title Lady Rice. They have two children, Eva and Donald. Eva, who was named after the title character from Evita, is the author of the novel The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, which was a finalist for the British Book Award Best Read of the Year. Tim Rice supports Sunderland A.F.C.

football club.[13] He was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Sunderland at a ceremony at the Stadium of Light in November 2006.[14] He was also a supporter of the Conservative Party, but in 2007 stated that the Conservatives were no longer interested in him and that his relationship with the Party had “irrevocably changed.”[15] Nonetheless, Andrew Lloyd Webber joined his sometime colleague Sir Tim Rice, both supporters of Baroness Thatcher, at her funeral.[16] Describing his religion, Rice has stated, “Technically I’m Church of England, which is really nothing. But I don’t follow it. I wouldn’t say I was a Christian.

I have nothing against it.” Conversely, he also stated that he adapted the Biblical stories of Joseph and Jesus to musicals because “I’d always rather take a true story over an untrue one.”[17] Rice runs his own amateur Heartaches Cricket Club, the name inspired by an Elvis Presley song.[18] In September 1981, Rice, along with Colin Webb and Michael Parkinson, co-founded Pavilion Books with a publishing focus on music and the arts.[19] According to The Sunday Times Rich List of British millionaires from the world of music, Rice is worth £149 million as of 2013.[20] 1968 – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber 1970 – Jesus Christ Superstar with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber 1976 – Evita with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber 1983 – Blondel with music by Stephen Oliver 1984 – Chess with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus 1986 – Cricket with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber 1992 – Tycoon with music by Michel Berger (English-language adaptation of the

 1979 French musical Starmania, with original French lyrics by Luc Plamondon) 1994 – Beauty and the Beast with music by Alan Menken for 9 new songs; remaining songs feature the lyrics of Howard Ashman, as written for the 1991 film.

1996 – Heathcliff with music by John Farrar 1997 – The Lion King with music by Elton John 1997 – King David with music by Alan Menken 2000 – Aida with music by Elton John 2005 – The Likes of Us with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (written in 1965, but first staged at the Sydmonton Festival on 9 July 2005[21]) 2011 – The Wizard of Oz with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber for 6 new songs; also additional lyrics for 4 songs with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. The remaining 13 songs are solely by Arlen and Harburg. 2013 – From Here to Eternity with music by Stuart Bryson, based on the James Jones novel of the same name.

Film and Television Work In addition to adaptations of his theatrical productions, Rice has worked on several original film and television projects: 1992 – Aladdin with music by Alan Menken; completed work begun by Howard Ashman 1994 – The Lion King with music by Elton John, score by Hans Zimmer 2000 – The Road to El Dorado with music by Elton John, score by Hans Zimmer and John Powell “It’s Easy for You”, recorded by Elvis Presley on his album Moody Blue “Legal Boys”, recorded by Elton John on his album Jump Up! “The Golden Boy” and “The Fallen Priest”, both recorded by Freddie Mercury on his solo album Barcelona 1981 concept album 1984 composed by Rick Wakeman and inspired by the George Orwell novel of the same title “The Second Time”, “The Last One to Leave”, “Hot As Sun” and “Falling Down to Earth” on Elaine Paige’s 1981 self-titled album “All Time High”, the theme tune to the James Bond film, Octopussy, written with John Barry and sung by Rita Coolidge (1983).

“A Winters Tale”, written with Mike Batt and recorded by David Essex (1982). Other Work Co-produced the 1986 London and 1988 Broadway productions of Chess as a partner in 3 Knights Ltd with Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Co-produced the 1989 London production of Anything Goes as a partner in Anchorage Productions with Elaine Paige. Co-produced, with Andrew Powell, Elaine Paige’s 1981 self-titled album Occasional panellist on the BBC Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute. Appears as host of the BBC Radio 2 weekly series Tim Rice’s American Pie which explores the music and musicians of each state in the USA. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Biography - IMDb Andrew Lloyd Webber Jump to: Overview (2) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trivia (29) | Personal Quotes (11) Overview (2) 5' 9¼" (1.76 m) Mini Bio (1) Andrew Lloyd Webber is arguably the most successful composer of our time.

He is best known for stage and film adaptations of his musicals Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Cats (1994), Evita (1996), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004). He was born on March 22, 1948, in South Kensington in London, England, the first of two sons of William Lloyd Webber, an organist and composer. His mother, Jean Johnstone, was a pianist and violinist. Young Andrew Lloyd Webber learned to play various musical instruments at home and began composing at an early age. He continued his music studies at Westminster School, where his father was an organist. At the age of 9, young Andrew was able to play the organ and assisted his father during performances. In 1964 he went to Oxford University as a Queens Scholar of history. In 1965 he met lyricist Tim Rice and dropped out of school to compose musicals and pop songs. In 1968 he had his first success with the West End production of 'Joseph and the Amasing Techicolor Dreamcoat'.

From the 1960s to 2000s Lloyd Webber has been constantly updating his style as an eclectic blend of musical genres ranging from classical to rock, pop, and jazz, and with inclusion of electro-acoustic music and choral-like numbers in his musicals. Andrew Lloyd Webber shot to fame in 1971 with the opening of his rock opera 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. His next successful collaboration with Tim Rice was the musical biopic 'Evita', based on the true story of Eva Peron of Argentina. Andrew Lloyd Webber has been constantly updating the genre of musical theatre. In 1981 he delivered 'Cats', based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and other poems by T.S. Eliot . It was produced at New London Theatre, where stage was designed as a giant junkyard with large-scale bottles and cans scattered around a huge tire representing a playground for cats dressed in exotic costumes who would come and go through the aisles. The record-breaking production of 'Cats' was on stage for 21 seasons, from 1981 - 2002, and became one of the most popular musicals of all time.

It played the total of 8,949 performances in London and 7,485 in New York. In 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber released his most successful musical, 'The Phantom of the Opera', based on the eponymous book by Gaston Leroux with the English lyrics by Charles Hart . 'The Phantom of the Opera' became the highest grossing entertainment event of all time, with total worldwide gross of 3,3 billion dollars and attendance of 80 million. It is also the longest running Broadway musical of all time and the most financially successful Broadway show in history. 'The Phantom of the Opera' was translated into several languages and was produced in more than twenty countries as "clones" of the original production, using similar staging, direction, costumes concept and sets design. He was knighted Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1992, and was created an honorary life peer in 1997 as Baron Lloyd-Webber, of Syndmonton in the County of Hampshire. He won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for Evita (1996), and received two more Oscar nominations.

Among his other awards are seven Tonys and three Grammys, including his 1986 Grammy Award for Requiem in the category of best classical composition. In 2006 Andrew Lloyd Webber was Awarded Kennedy Center Honors. He owns seven London theatres, which he also restored. Outside of his entertainment career he developed a passion for collecting Pre-Raphaelite paintings and Victorian art. He was married three times and has five children. He is residing in England. Andrew Lloyd Webber is currently working on his new opera titled 'Master and Margarita' based on the eponymous novel by Mikhail A. Bulgakov . - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov Spouse (3) ( 24 July 1972 - 14 November 1983) (divorced) (2 children) Trivia (29) He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1992 Queen's Honours List and awarded Life-Peerage in the 1997 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Music.

Since 1997, he has been Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and can sit in the House of Lords in Parliament in London, England. He sits on the Conservative Party benches and is a longstanding supporter of the party. Started playing the violin aged three. Had written nine musicals by the time he had left school. Has owned a race horse. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 (2000 season) for Best New Musical for "The Beautiful Game." He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Outstanding Musical Production of 2003 for both "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and "Tell Me on A Sunday," both performed in London's West End. He was awarded the 2000 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best New Musical for "The Beautiful Game" with Ben Elton at the Cambridge Theatre. Shares birthday with legendary composer Stephen Sondheim . Has won Broadway's Tony Award three times: in 1980, as Best Score (Musical), his music with lyrics by Tim Rice , for "Evita;" in 1983, as Best Score, his music with lyrics by T.S.

Eliot , for "Cats;" and in 1995, as Best Original Musical Score, his music with lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton , for "Sunset Boulevard." He was Tony-nominated eight other times: in 1972, as Best Score, him as Composer and Rice as Lyricist, for "Jesus Christ Superstar;" in 1982, as Best Score, his music with Rice's lyrics, for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat;" in 1986, as Best Score, with collaborators Black and Richard Maltby Jr.

, for "Song & Dance;" in 1987, as Best Score, his music with lyrics by Richard Stilgoe for "Starlight Express;" in 1988, as Best Book (Musical) with collaborator Stilgoe and Best Score (Musical), with collaborators Stilgoe and Charles Hart for "The Phantom of the Opera;" and in 1990, as Best Score (Musical), his music with lyrics by Black and Hart, and Best Book (Musicl) for "Aspects of Love." Wrote song "It's Easy For You," recorded by Elvis Presley during his last session in October 29, 1976. It was released in Elvis' last album "Moody Blue" in 1977. Awarded Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, with Dolly Parton , Smokey Robinson , Steven Spielberg , and Zubin Mehta . Father, from his first marriage, of Nick Lloyd Webber and author Imogen Lloyd Webber .

Father, from his third marriage, of Alastair Adam (born May 3, 1992), William Richard (born August 24, 1993) and Isabella Aurora (born April 30, 1996). Has written the music for the two longest running Broadway shows in history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. Older brother of Julian Lloyd Webber . Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1995. Ranked #5 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture". He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Webber's 1986 musical "Phantom of the Opera" was inspired by Ken Hill 's 1976 musical version of the same name. Hill's version is credited as the first Phantom musical and was a success. Sarah Brightman , who later created the role of Christine in Webber's version, was famously asked to play the role of Christine in Hill's 1984 revival but turned down the offer.

Webber, who was then married to Brightman, had actually seen Hill's show and asked Hill to collaborate Phantom on a larger scale for the Victoria Palace Theatre in the West End; eventually Webber pursued the musical without Hill. Hill and Webber had previously worked together on a revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat". The Sunday Times List estimated his net worth at $1.2 billion. [2009] His musical, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Musical-Large. His musical, "Cats" at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for the 2011 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Musical. His musical "Cats" was the West End's longest-running musical until "Les Misérables" broke its record in 2006. He was so nervous about the premiere of "The Phantom of the Opera" that he didn't attend the show. Producer Cameron Mackintosh had to find him and bring him back to the theater for the curtain calls.

He considers the crashing of the chandelier in "The Phantom of the Opera" to be the most theatrical moment he's ever conceived. Between 1980 and 1995, four of his musicals - "Evita", "Cats", "The Phantom of the Opera", and "Sunset Boulevard" - won the Tony Award for Best Musical. His musical, "Cats" at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2003 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Musical Production. His musical, "Jesus Christ Superstar," at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Award for Musical Production. Attended the wedding of media mogul Rupert Murdoch to former model Jerry Hall in 2016. "The Phantom of the Opera" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 2004 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Touring Production. Personal Quotes (11) There is a recommendation that schools spend a certain amount of time teaching music but it really depends on whether the teachers believe in it.

In some primary and secondary schools there is no musical provision at all but other well-resourced schools have plenty. In reference to singer/actress Emmy Rossum : "She is a wonderfully pure soprano, with an exceptional range. But more than this she also brings real character into the voice - so rare for her age." If you're a composer you do want to know how people are reacting to it but at the same time, of course, the performer is the most important thing. I'm a composer and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song. Sometimes I think I've written melodies that may have got a bit buried because maybe the lyric hasn't worked with the song. Sometimes, actually, it's the other way around. When you're writing for musical theatre the story comes first. If the story's right then the songs will probably come right. You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth. Despite a rumour put around some years back, I have never contemplated leaving Britain for tax reasons. More than ever before we need to keep high-flying professionals in the UK. We can't, as we have done in the past, dump on them through penal personal taxation. Of course we know that there have been some shocking excesses in the City of London. But for years we have also had drummed into us that the City of London proudly took over from manufacturing as the UK's main source of income. New Labour rejoiced in the fruits of the excesses of the bankers. Of course, with hindsight, their bonuses were obscene. But New Labour gratefully taxed them. The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked, but for one reason of another haven't. I suppose if I had one regret it's that I would have loved to have had a long-term partner like Rodgers had with either Hart or Hammerstein.

I was really hoping that the Tim Rice relationship would have gone on, but I'm obsessed with theatre and for Tim it's something that he does enjoy doing, is very good at, but it isn't his whole life as it is with me. What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. A really good example of that is design and 'Love Never Lies'. The London production didn't have any consistency of style, so it would go from say, art nouveau to art deco, to straightforward, old-fashioned showbiz. The Australian production had its own language. It was at one with the piece. [on composing songs] I've sometimes found that they've taken a while, but then you get the ones where it's so obvious that you think 'that must have been done before', so you go through agonies and get musicologists and people to look at them. [observation, 2013] In the last few years, everything seems to have gone slightly away from music and more toward the comedy musicals, the 'Hairsprays' and 'The Book of Mormons'.

I just don't know if there's a public for something now which is much more serious and is old-fashioned, in the sense that it is melodic. See also BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice BMI Icon Award for Tim Rice 12 September 2014 Sir Tim Rice is to receive the BMI Icon award. The lyricist will be presented with the accolade at the BMI London Awards, which will be held at the Dorchester Hotel on October 13, 2014. Sir Tim Rice The famed songwriter is best known for his collaborations with the composer Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber, with whom wrote the musicals, 'Evita' and 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'. He has also worked closely on several Disney films, including 'The Lion King', 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty and the Beast'. Upon hearing the news, Sir Tim dedicated his award to fellow music legends who have helped him along the way.

He said: "I owe it all to Tommy Steele, Lonnie Donegan, Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard and Joe Brown." BMI President and CEO, Michael O'Neill said: "Sir Tim Rice's extraordinary creativity has given the world some of the most beloved songs of the past 50 years, sheer musical poetry that has thrilled audiences in films, musical theatre and on chart-topping recordings. "He is one of our era's most admired and respected lyricists, a leading author and sough-after commentator. We are immensely proud to honor him as a BMI Icon." The 69-year-old lyricist has also received three Best Song Oscars for "A Whole New World" (with Alan Menken), "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" (with Elton John), and "You Must Love Me" (with Andrew Lloyd Webber ). Previous winners of the BMI Icon Award include, the Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon , the rock band Queen, Ray Davies, Van Morrison and the musician Bryan Ferry. stumbleupon About Tim Rice Tim Rice is a British lyricist and author who has an estimated net worth of $250 million.

Prior to his successful music career, Tim Rice has worked for EMI Records as a management trainee in 1966. When EMI producer Norrie Paramor left to set up his own organisation in 1968, he joined him as an assistant producer. Rice collaborated with a lot of artists such as Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Menken, Elton John. Rice worked with Webber for several projects such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cricket, and The Likes of Us. Rice, Menken and John teamed up for the soundtrack of animated films such as Aladdin and The Lion King. They won an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Aladdin’s A Whole New World. And for The Lion King, they got a notch for Best Original Song and Can You Feel the Love Tonight in the prestigious Golden Globe and Academy Award. Meanwhile, in 1996, Rice won his third Academy Award with Webber for Best Original Song, You Must Love Me, in the film version of Evita.

He and his brother Jo, radio presenters Mike Read and Paul Gambaccini, founded the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and served as an editor from 1977 to 1996. Meanwhile, as an author, he wrote the foreword for the book, Why Do Buses Come In Threes by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham. He was made a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994. Rice was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and named a Disney Legend in 2002. In 2008, Rice received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice was born on November 10, 1944 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. He attended Lancing College, as he took up History and French and Sorbonne University in Paris. Jesus Christ Superstar – About The Show Andrew Lloyd Webber » Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of some of the world’s best-known musicals including Cats, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard.

His latest musical, the hit stage version of the movie “School of Rock”, opened on Broadway in December 2015. His awards, both as composer and producer, include seven Tonys, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, a BASCA Fellowship, the Kennedy Center Honor and a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem, his setting of the Latin Requiem mass which contains one of his best known compositions, Pie Jesu. He owns seven London theatres including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the London Palladium. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created an honorary member of the House of Lords in 1997. He is passionate about the importance of music in education and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts and music. Tim Rice » Lyricist TIM RICE has worked in music, theatre and films since 1965 when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Rather than pursue Tim’s ambitions to write rock or pop songs they turned their attention to Andrew’s obsession – musical theatre.

Their first collaboration (lyrics by Tim, music by Andrew) was an unsuccessful show based on the life of Dr. Barnardo, the Victorian philanthropist, The Likes Of Us. Their next three works together were much more successful – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. Tim has also worked with other distinguished popular composers such as Elton John (The LionKing, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast) and Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess). His first new show for ten years, From Here To Eternity, with music by newcomer Stuart Brayson, co-produced with Lee Menzies, directed by Tamara Harvey, and with book by Bill Oakes, opened in the West End in 2013. He formed his own cricket team in 1973 and was President of the MCC in 2002. He recently wrote and presented a 52-partseries for BBC Radio 2, American Pie, a trawl through the music and musicians of every American State. He has won several awards, mainly for the wrong thing or for simply turning up.

Relive The Story Arena Tour (2012) Filmed as an arena rock opera, the performance features a star-studded line-up which includes award-winning musical comedian, Tim Minchin as the role of Judas Iscariot; pop icon and former Spice Girl Melanie C as Mary Magdalene; radio DJ Chris Moyles in his stage debut as King Herod; and Ben Forster, to take on the title role of Jesus. This award-winning creative team is sure to captivate audiences and transform the hugely popular stage production into a unique, modern, state-of-the-art spectacular. Jesus Christ Superstar (2000) A bold and fresh adaptation of the classic Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera, this version released in 2000 re-orchestrates and reinterprets the 1970s version, itself a creative retelling of a celebrated, timeless tale. Shot at Pinewood Studios,this filmed stage version starring Glenn Carter and Rik Mayall captures one of the best scores Andrew Lloyd Webber has ever written and is packed with hit songs including “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”, “Gethesmane” and “Superstar”.

Remastered Album (2012) The original concept album, remastered in 2012. The album features renowned rock vocalist and Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan voicing the part of Jesus, platinum selling solo artist Murray Head as Judas Iscariot and the inimitable Yvonne Elliman in the role of Mary Magdalene. Originally released in 1970, the album achieved huge global fame, most notably in the US where it went to Number 1 on the Billboard Album Chart, keeping other seminal records by George Harrison and Led Zeppelin off the top spot and going on to sell over 7 million copies worldwide. Perform The Show If you are involved with an amateur dramatic society, school, college, church group or youth group and would like to stage a musical, then you can’t go wrong with an Andrew Lloyd Webber classic! The catalogue includes family favourites such as Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Starlight Express and more.

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Question: Which lyricist who has worked with Elton John and Andrew Lloyd Webber won an award for A Whole New World from Aladdin?
Answer: Tim Rice